From Langley Park To Memphis

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Additional personnel includes: Stevie Wonder, Pete Townshend, Andrae Crouch Singers, Lennie Castro, Thomas Dolby. Personnel: Pete Townshend (guitar); Stevie Wonder (harmonica); Gary Moberley, Andy Richards, Thomas Dolby (keyboards); Louis Jardim, Lenny Castro, Wendy Smith (percussion); Vonciele Faggette, Janet Mims, Geary Lanier, Von Foggett, Bert Noriega, Ricky Barber, Jean Johnson, Verdine Johnson, Gloria Augustus, Alfie Silas, Andrae Crouch, Rose Banks, Sabrina Johnston, Sandra Crouch (background vocals). Audio Mixers: David Leonard ; Richard Moakes; Mike Shipley; Tony Phillips. Photographer: Nick Knight. Unknown Contributor Roles: Neil Conti; Martin McAloon; Wendy Smith. Arrangers: John Altman; Robin Smith . In 1986, Prefab Sprout recorded an album's worth of tunes that the band's British label rejected as "uncommercial." Stung by that criticism, the Newcastle quartet responded with FROM LANGLEY PARK TO MEMPHIS, an agreeably slick and unapologetically commercial set of mature pop songs. The gambit paid off, as the ironically bouncy "The King of Rock and Roll" and the sharp Springsteen critique "Cars and Girls" were, respectively, the band's biggest U.K. and U.S. hits. Other highlights include the jazzily soulful "Nightingales," which features a lovely harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder, and the gospel-inflected "I Remember That" and "The Venus of the Soup Kitchen," both of which feature guest turns by the Andre Crouch Singers. Having made its commercial point, Prefab Sprout returned nearly three years later with the gorgeous but willfully knotty JORDAN: THE COMEBACK. In the meantime, the band's British label issued the previously-rejected "uncommercial" tracks as the stopgap album PROTEST SONGS.
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